When vaudeville impresario Martin Beck "discovered" a struggling Harry Houdini in 1899, it was Houdini's ability to escape from handcuffs which caught his attention. Although Houdini was hardly the ...
Note: The performance I attended was a preview at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre. “What you’re about to witness is not magic . . . What you are about to witness is simply a skill.” There are, however, ...
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The Trick That Fooled Houdini
Even the world’s greatest escape artist had one weakness: the human mind. In 1899, Harry Houdini declared no illusion could fool him if he saw it three times. He was wrong. One man — a quiet, ...
Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Click here to subscribe today or Login. Actor and magician John Calvert, at left in an advertisement for the 1948 movie ’The ...
SALT LAKE CITY — Once upon a time, Harry Houdini, the famed magician and escape artist, hung upside down from a downtown building in Salt Lake City. Houdini started his career in entertainment at an ...
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